Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls to Plas Bach
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 June 1998
- Locality
- Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.76054, -4.78900
- Cadw reference
- 20063
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Garden walls to rear and front of Plas Bach
History
Garden walls to Plas Bach, built in the 1870s as part of the general rebuilding of farms on the island by the 3rd Baron Newborough.
Exterior
Garden walls, rubble stone with stepped squared stone cappings, enclosing narrow front court and longer rear garden.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Plas Bach, part of a series of walled enclosures which is a characteristic feature of the island landscape.
Nearby in the register
- Plas BachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled Court at Plas Bach with attached field walls to SDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls to CristinDomesticunder 1 mi
- CristinDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.